Jarvis Cocker Quotes - Page 4

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• I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Writing, Political

  Interview with Elizabeth Peyton, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

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• I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Communication, Chocolate

  Interview with Elizabeth Peyton, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

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• I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Kids, Player

  "The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review" by Jarvis Cocker, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

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• For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Hands, Awkward, Insane

  "Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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• I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Nervous

  "Jarvis Cocker: 'Music has changed. It's not as central, it's more like a scented candle'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2011.

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• There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Writing, Class, Interesting

  "Nothing left to write home about". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 1999.

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• It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Party, Years, Two

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• I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Book, Together, Proud

  "Pulp's Jarvis Cocker Appointed Editor-at-large at Faber & Faber". www.digitalspy.com. October 13, 2011.

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• The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Sadness, Sentimental

  "Paris match" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2007.

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• You try and imagine what it must have been like to first see something moving on a screen. It must have blown your mind, because up to then life went by and there was no way to capture it. You could only get one instant and you didn't get the movement. So it's like having a bit of control over time really, because it's happening in real time or what seems to be real time, and then you can play it backwards and you can watch things again and again.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Real, Moving, Mind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Believe, Afterlife, Banking

  "This much I know". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• You know when you're thinking about what you want to be when you grow up, or how you want your life to pan out. I couldn't imagine anything better than living in a hotel so you'd never have to worry about washing up, making the bed, anything like that, and having a servant to come in and play all your favourite TV programmes.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Growing Up, Thinking, Worry

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Consistent, Ifs

  "You can snort as much cocaine as you want and have as many beautiful women as you want ... but it doesn't make you happy" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2008.

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• France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Dictatorship

  Source: thequietus.com

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• People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Nice, People, Nice People

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• If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people who bring you down to earth, but in a pleasant way.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Nice, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I think life is more interesting when everybody's jumbled up together. When people separate out into cliques and things, it's okay, but it's a bit limiting. You can always learn things from other people. This is my theory.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things interesting. When you get a homogenous society, it's very, very dull, whether that's all working class or all upper class, because everybody thinks the same, everybody looks the same.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Class, Interesting

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes down to, because it's such a dominant capitalist society, everything becomes a consumer product. And I don't think that's really appropriate to the creative arts, really.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: "Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that's already there?"

  Jarvis Cocker

  Moving, People, Junk

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Light, Kind

  Interview with Wes Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Museums, Houston, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Differences, Links, Detours

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, that's pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"

  Jarvis Cocker

  Creativity, Voice, Creative

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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